re: broadband no like update!
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Adam Bradley
(7830 messages posted)
Well I would not worry about the updates, several of us here rarely if ever load
an update. I would double check the network settings on the wireless connection,
the router and the modem to see if they are right. If they are I would run a malware
scan, sometimes oddball network issues can be the result of an infection.
Also it is highly unwise to mess with anything in the system critical areas (system
folders, regedit boot files ect.) unless you know what you are doing. Many seemingly
unneeded items are there butare there for a reason. And that warning includes the
use of registry cleaners and things that clean up "unneeded" files, make sure you
know what you are changing or deleting before you do it.
On Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 12:44 pm, julee wrote:
>OK, this is a weird one. When I'm on broadband (wifi) The link for "Windows Update"
>(http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ ) gives me a 404 type error: "Internet Explorer
>cannot display the webpage...".
>
>I fiddled around with my Windows directory some time back (killed off CABs, among
>other things; may have munged JAVA), and would have just assumed I mucked something
>up. But for 3 things: 1) haven't really had a problem with anything ELSE, 2) it
>doesn't FIND the page and then have trouble USING it -- it cannot even GET TO the
>page, and 3) it finds the page and grabs the updates just fine...on DIALUP!
>
>Or at least on Juno dialup. I seem to think I got the same 404 on NZ dialup, but
>I can't quite recall atm. All I know is that I was **STUNNED** to see the page
come
>up no problem via Juno last night, after months (on wifi) thinking I would never
>see it again sans reinstall or somesuch.
>
>[If I didn't have like 500M of updates backlogged, I'd just go ahead and do it on
>Juno, but. I did let it grab a COUPLE, tho, just to prove that it worked.]
>
>AFAIK I have no firewall running. I do have AV (Avira), but can't imagine that
is
>an issue since the page is only blocked/invisible ON BROADBAND?!
>
>What could POSSIBLY be at issue here?
>
>TIA!
|
All messages in this thread [show all]
 |  | re: broadband no like update! (Adam Bradley: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 1:16 pm) |
| |
| |
Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum
|
|
